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DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK] (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Update: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/

It's also important to note that ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are experiencing similar issues because they use the Bing API.

UPDATE 2

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah Startpage and Ecosia too

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think having all the search engines being front ends for just bing and google has just revealed an obvious weakness.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

search.brave.com is independent.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would rather have no search-capability

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What wrong with brave? Never used it and don't know much about it myself

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

I’m not quoting an article directly or anything so there’s likely better info out there, but brave browser was built with scammy crypto bro bullshit in it, and it’s CEO, iirc, is kind of an alt-right anti LGBTQ+ general douchebag. I’m sure you could search for more on the topic if DuckDuckGo was working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

brevity is the soul of wit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Funny thing is the way I found out bing was down is I searched for startpage in duckduckgo to try it thinking it might be a good alternative but when DDG wasnt working I tried it on ecosia. which was also down once I finally opened start page it wasn't working either. Its all bing all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

youcare.world is still up but that is based on google and I am not sure how legit the tree planting is. Not to mention their privacy policy mentions facebook which is always a red flag. https://youcare.world/privacy?l=en

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

they've also recently implemented an Al chatbot, which will probably offset all the trees they've ever planted in the next week or so

edit: I read the comment above me too quickly, I was talking about Ecosia mentioned in the comment before that one, not Youcare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Startpage actually worked for a moment for me. Then I had issues